Payroll Tax Analyst

Insight Global; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 100,289,000 - 157,597,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K / Pension

Paid leave

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Payroll Business Analyst for a remote, long-term contract with potential to convert to full-time. This role sits at the intersection of Payroll Operations, Payroll Tax, SAP ECP, Reporting, and Business Analysis.

You will investigate payroll and tax issues, support testing and change requests, and partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Benefits to drive issues through resolution.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of payroll experience.
• Payroll audits and reconciliations.
• Payroll issue resolution.
• Tax notices, withholding issues, unemployment claims, tax compliance, or tax reconciliations.
• Hands-on SAP Employee Central Payroll experience.
• Payroll processing, auditing, reporting, testing, or troubleshooting within ECP.
• Root-cause analysis.
• Payroll reporting.
• Strong Excel.
• Ability to assess business impact and prioritize work.

Responsibilities

• Investigate payroll, payroll tax, and compliance issues.
• Perform payroll audits and reconciliations.
• Analyze payroll data and reporting.
• Support SAP ECP testing, validation, and change requests.
• Partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Benefits teams.
• Review payroll outputs and identify discrepancies.
• Help prioritize and resolve payroll tax notices and compliance issues.
• Support process improvements and documentation.
• Assist with ECP-related troubleshooting and impact analysis.

Skills

Payroll experience

Audits and reconciliations

Issue resolution

Excel

Root-cause analysis

Data analysis

Tools

SAP ECP

ADP SmartCompliance

Payroll Control Center (PCC)

BSI TaxFactory

CPP

Job description

Remote | Long-term Contract with potential to convert FTE

Senior Payroll Business Analyst

• ******This role sits at the intersection of Payroll Operations, Payroll Tax, SAP ECP, Reporting, and Business Analysis.
• They will help investigate payroll and tax issues, analyze impacts, support testing and change requests, and partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Payroll stakeholders to drive issues through resolution.
• This is NOT a pure payroll processor, payroll manager, HRIS implementation, or payroll tax analyst role.
• The ideal candidate can bridge payroll operations and systems while helping the team work through a large backlog of payroll, tax, and SAP ECP-related issues.

MUST-HAVES

Payroll

• 7+ years of payroll experience
• Payroll audits and reconciliations
• Payroll issue resolution

Payroll Tax

• Tax notices, withholding issues, unemployment claims, tax compliance, or tax reconciliations
• Ability to research and analyze issues, not just escalate to vendors

SAP ECP

• Hands-on SAP Employee Central Payroll experience
• Payroll processing, auditing, reporting, testing, or troubleshooting within ECP
• Understanding of payroll results, wage types, audits, and payroll impacts

Analysis

• Root-cause analysis
• Payroll reporting
• Strong Excel
• Ability to assess business impact and prioritize work

Preferred

• ADP SmartCompliance
• BSI TaxFactory
• Payroll Control Center (PCC)
• CPP

Candidates should be able to explain:

• How they identified the issue
• What data/reports they reviewed
• Business impact
• Employee impact
• Compliance impact
• Why they prioritized the issue
• How they drove resolution
• How they validated the fix

Candidates who primarily discuss payroll processing, ticket routing, or vendor escalation will likely NOT be a fit.

DAY-TO-DAY

• Investigate payroll, payroll tax, and compliance issues
• Perform payroll audits and reconciliations
• Analyze payroll data and reporting
• Support SAP ECP testing, validation, and change requests
• Partner with Payroll Tax, HRIS, Finance, and Benefits teams
• Review payroll outputs and identify discrepancies
• Help prioritize and resolve payroll tax notices and compliance issues
• Support process improvements and documentation
• Assist with ECP-related troubleshooting and impact analysis

compensation: ~$35-55/hour. exact compensation will vary dependent on level of experience, scope, education, location, etc. Benefit packages for this role include healthcare insurance offerings, pension/ 401K, and paid leave as provided by applicable law.